Trump pauses as he revisits — and tries to clarify — 'Black jobs' claim

After being highly criticized for his “Black jobs” remark during the June presidential debate, Republican nominee Donald Trump revisited the phrase on Friday, appearing to attempt to clarify his comment.

Trump’s choice to re-work his remarks now may be the result of former first lady Michelle Obama chastising the ex-president during this week’s Democratic National Convention.

In June, claiming there are “millions” of immigrants crossing the Southern border into the U.S., Trump had said, “they’re taking Black jobs now.” There are no “Black jobs,” but many took the opportunity to, as with other slurs, take the phrase back.

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One day after the debate, the popular social media account @BlackKnight10k, which has over a quarter-million followers on X wrote: “Every Black person in America will be talking about ‘Black Jobs’ amongst ourselves tomorrow the second no white people are around. Trump is never going to recover from that. Might as well have just said the n word. Add Trump to the losers list.”

On Friday, at a campaign event in Las Vegas, Trump claimed, “they’re losing their jobs because Biden and Harris are allowing millions of people to come into our country, and they’re taking Black –’ he said, pausing, before adding, “people’s jobs.” Trump then immediately qualified it again by saying, “African-American jobs.”

“They’re taking those jobs. And a lot of those jobs are Hispanic jobs too.”